Founded in 1984, Music Kindergarten is the first kindergarten in Shanghai with music education as its core. After several relocations, the music kindergarten is now located in Xiamen Road, Huangpu District, and was rated as a model kindergarten in Shanghai in 2010. In addition, the music kindergarten has also won the honors of Shanghai Municipal Kindergarten Outstanding Unit and Shanghai Model Worker Collective. The music kindergarten with a small area and scale has a good reputation and is a small and beautiful preschool education unit.
The garden covers an area of 737 square meters, with only 250 square meters of outdoor area, which is not very spacious. The decoration of the park is decent, although it is not luxurious, but it is also colorful, clean and bright. The kindergarten has 6 multi-functional activity rooms and 17 special activity rooms, and each class is equipped with independent activity rooms, bedrooms and washrooms. The overall hardware conditions are slightly inferior in the demonstration gardens.
Despite the lack of hardware, the music program in kindergarten is commendable. There are many musical instruments for learning in the music kindergarten, including violin, pipa, liuqin, erhu, dulcimer, guzheng, piano, etc., and parents can voluntarily choose a musical instrument for their children to learn. Unlike other kindergartens with a recreational nature, the teaching in music kindergartens is quite professional. In addition to teachers who have mastered artistic skills, the school has also hired more than 40 experts from Shanghai Conservatory of Music and Shanghai Normal University to regularly supervise and optimize teaching. In addition, parents are also required to accompany their children to class once a week and urge them to practice every day to achieve the desired learning results.
There are a total of 32 on-the-job teachers and staff, 8 of whom have a college degree, 12 who are undergraduates and undergraduates, and 1 who are postgraduates, and each teacher has mastered more than two musical instruments. Chi Linwen, the principal of the kindergarten, has been teaching for 23 years, and has won the titles of Shanghai Gardener Award, Top Ten Educators in the District, etc., and has recorded children's audio tapes such as "New Children's Music Teaching Activities", with professional ability and profound teaching management experience.
In 2017, the childcare fee for children with household registration in Huangpu District was 700 yuan per month. Huangpu District is one of the few areas in Shanghai that implements computer allocation, and parents are very welcome to the lottery method, one is fair and just, to avoid the greasy in the interview, and the other is to reduce the pressure of the interview.
